Issue 50
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glamping, festivals and outdoor events
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GLAMPSITES<br />
the parish council was not. I was<br />
undertaking the whole process on<br />
my own and sometimes it seemed<br />
daunting and quite overwhelming.<br />
What are your plans for next<br />
season?<br />
I am really excited to be building<br />
a second, larger wildlife pond<br />
in the bat mitigation area plus I<br />
will be enhancing our outdoor<br />
fire pit areas. I’ve gained some<br />
real inspiration from Pinterest<br />
again and am looking forward<br />
to creating some seriously<br />
‘Instagrammable’ outside cooking<br />
areas.<br />
Describe your average day midseason<br />
I’m usually at my desk first thing in<br />
the morning sorting out overnight<br />
emails and bookings. I then drive<br />
the 10 minutes to site, stopping<br />
off at local suppliers if guests have<br />
ordered welcome packs.<br />
Once on site, I start checking the<br />
cabins. It’s always a real rush to<br />
clean fire pits and wood burners,<br />
replenish the wood and clean the<br />
windows. Fortunately, I have a<br />
great cleaning team who do the<br />
bulk of the actual cleaning of the<br />
cabins. Once they are cleaned and<br />
ready for the new guests it’s time<br />
for grounds maintenance – this is<br />
a never-ending cycle once spring<br />
has sprung.<br />
I then start sorting through<br />
the rubbish and hand sort all the<br />
recycling – I’m determined to<br />
minimise waste going into landfill.<br />
Then its home again for a quick<br />
cuppa and back in the office to<br />
deal with the day’s admin!<br />
IT FEELS<br />
AMAZING,<br />
ESPECIALLY<br />
WHEN I<br />
LOOK BACK<br />
AT WHAT<br />
WAS HERE<br />
BEFORE I<br />
CREATED<br />
THE ROOST<br />
– IT WAS<br />
A FIELD<br />
FULL OF<br />
PERENNIAL<br />
WEEDS AND<br />
BUILDERS’<br />
RUBBISH!<br />
Do you enjoy the business?<br />
I absolutely love it! The business<br />
has done so well and we get such<br />
great guest reviews. What’s more,<br />
I’ve won a few industry awards<br />
since opening and this year have<br />
been named as The Best Rural<br />
Tourism Business in the UK. It<br />
feels amazing, especially when I<br />
look back at what was here before<br />
I created The Roost – it was a<br />
field full of perennial weeds and<br />
builders’ rubbish!<br />
What are you most proud of?<br />
You will think I’m a bit strange but<br />
it was the first spring after opening<br />
and the new nature pond was full of<br />
frogspawn – I was so delighted that<br />
life was returning to the site in such<br />
a short space of time. It was such a<br />
high for me!<br />
DETAILS<br />
SOAK TUB<br />
Essential Bathing<br />
www.essentialbathing.co.uk<br />
BOOKINGS<br />
Glampmanager<br />
www.glampmanager.com<br />
BRANDING & PR<br />
Orchard Marketing Associates<br />
www.orchardmarketingassociates.co.uk<br />
INSURANCE<br />
Friar Best Insurance Services<br />
www.friarbest.co.uk<br />
DETAILS<br />
The Roost Luxury Glamping<br />
Jubilee Road<br />
Mitcheldean<br />
Gloucestershire GL17 0EE<br />
www.theroostglamping.co.uk<br />
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